
FLOSS Weekly
It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.
Latest episodes

Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 9min
Episode 813: Turn Off the Internet
This week Jonathan, Simon, and Aaron chat about Open Source Retro-computing, Open Source AI, and ... politics? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 21min
Episode 812: Firefox and the Future
This week Jonathan and David chat with Sylvestre and Brian about Firefox! What's up in the browser world, what's coming, and what's the new feature for Firefox on mobile that has Jonathan so excited? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 12min
Episode 811: Elixir & Nerves - Real Embedded Linux
This week Jonathan and Lars Wikman chat about Elixir and Nerves. That's a modern language that's a take on Erlang, and an embedded Linux approach for running Elixir code on devices. https://underjord.io https://elixir-lang.org/ https://nerves-project.org/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 13min
Episode 810: A Rising Wallet Pays for All Boats
This week Jonathan, Randal, and Aaron chat about Linux, the challenges with using system modules like the Raspberry Pi, challenges with funding development, and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 16min
Episode 809: Pi4J - Stable and Boring on the Raspberry Pi
This week Jonathan and David chat with Frank Delporte about Pi4J, the friendly Java libraries for the Raspberry Pi, that expose GPIO, SPI, I2C and other IO interfaces. - https://www.pi4j.com/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 15min
Episode 808: Curl - Gotta Download 'em All
This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What's the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI for 18 years straight? And how did Daniel turn all this into a career instead of just a hobby? Listen to find out! https://daniel.haxx.se/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 5min
Episode 807: Bitten By the Penguin
This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Josh Bressers, VP of Security at Anchore, and host of the Open Source Security and Hacker History podcasts. We talk security, SBOMs, and how Josh almost became a Sun fan instead of a Linux geek. https://opensourcesecurity.io/ https://hackerhistory.com/ https://infosec.exchange/@joshbressers https://anchore.com/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 14min
Episode 806: Manyfold -- The Dopamine of Open Source
This week Jonathan and David chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted 3d print digital asset manager that's on the Fediverse! https://floppy.org.uk/ https://manyfold.app https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 17min
Episode 805: Mastodon -- Bring Your Own Algorithm
This week Jonathan and Jeff chat with Andy Piper about Mastodon! There's a new release of Mastodon, and plenty on the road map to keep everybody excited! https://joinmastodon.org/ https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 7min
Episode 804: The AI Alliance -- Asimov was Right
This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Anthony Annunziata about Open Source AI and the AI Alliance. We get answers to our burning AI questions, and talk about the difficulty of defining what Open Source means for these large models. - https://ogg.camp You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/